If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself
around your own.
-- Emerson
around your own.
-- Emerson
Related:
- Man never fastened one end of a chain around the neck of his brother,
that God's own hand did not fasten around the neck... - Yo momma so ugly instead of putting the bungee cord around her ankle,
they put it around her neck... - You're at the office, behind your desk, bored, bent,
broken. It's a beautiful day outside. You want to go... - The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent,
to gnaw and stifle it. --... - Tie a yellow ribbon around Jane Fonda's
neck.... - Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve.
Run with decent folk and your own decent instincts...
